Statistical sound category learning

  • Cristia (2018)
  • N papers = 11, N experiments = 20, N participants = 634
  • Infants' ability to learn sound categories from their acoustic distribution.
  • Curator is Alex Cristia

Maye J, Werker JF, Gerken L.Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination.Cognition. 2002 Jan;82(3):B101-11.

Maye J, Weiss DJ, Aslin RN.Statistical phonetic learning in infants: facilitation and feature generalization.Dev Sci. 2008 Jan;11(1):122-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00653.x.

Fennell, C. T., Hudon, T. and Spring, M., (2012). Distributional learning of phonemes in monolingual and bilingual infants., Minneapolis, USA, 18th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

Pons, F., Mugitani, R., Amano, S., and Werker, J. F. (2006). Distributional learning in vowel length distinctions by 6-month-old English infants. In International conference on infant studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Pons, F., Sabourin, L., Cady, J. C., and Werker, J. F. (2008). Distributional learning in vowel distinctions by 8-month-old English infant. Presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Yoshida, K. A., Pons, F., Maye, J., and Werker, J. F. (2009). Distributional Phonetic Learning at 10 Months of Age. Infancy, 15(4), 420<e2><80><93>433.

Capel, D. J. H., De Bree, E. H., De Klerk, M. A., Kerkhoff, A. O., and Wijnen, F. N. K. (2011). Distributional cues affect phonetic discrimination in Dutch infants. Sound and sounds. Studies presented to MEH (Bert) Schouten on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Utrecht: UiL-OTS, 33-43.

Liu, L., and Kager, R. (2011). How Do Statistical Learning and Perceptual Reorganization Alter Dutch Infant's Perception to Lexical Tones? In ICPhS (Vol. 17, pp. 1270<e2><80><93>1273).

Liu L, Kager R. (2014). Perception of tones by infants learning a non-tone language.Cognition. 133(2):385-94. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.004. Epub 2014 Aug 14.

Wanrooij, K., Boersma, P., and van Zuijen, T. L. (2014). Fast phonetic learning occurs already in 2-to-3-month old infants. An ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 77.

Ter Schure, S., Junge, C., & Boersma, P. (2016). Discriminating Non-native Vowels on the Basis of Multimodal, Auditory or Visual Information: Effects on Infants<e2><80><99> Looking Patterns and Discrimination. Frontiers in psychology, 7.

Laboratory experiments in which infants are exposed to a set of syllables that have been generated using a bimodal distribution of acoustic cues or not, and infants are tested on their discrimination of two sounds differing along the same dimension.

Search strategy: "Studies were considered based on a forward search from a seminal paper on both pubmed and google search, a list of references produced by the author, manual inspection of several editions of two leading conferences (ISIS and IASCL 2004-2012), direct contact of labs having published on the topic, and announcements to several mailing lists."

Systematic: yes